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the spot in the cell black, compressed and elongated ; secon- 
. daries pure white (with the veins and outer border brown, and 
the costal area brownish, as in C. lucifuga). EXxpanse 2 inches 
1 line. 
-Hakodaté (Whitely). 
Heliothide. 
120. Heliothis adaucta, n. sp.’ 
Close to H. dipsacea, but much larger, the primaries and 
thorax of a more sandy whitish tint, with the markings rather 
darker; the secondaries whiter with blacker markings, the 
spot closing the cell broader: body less reddish in tint; 
under surface with all the markings much more distinct, 
Expanse 1 inch 5-6 lines. 
Yokohama (Jonas); Hakodaté (Whitely). 
The largest examples of H. dipsacea measure about 1 inch 
3 lines in expanse. 
Erastride. 
121. Hrastria stygia, n. sp. 
Allied to #. fuscula: primaries black in the male, brown in 
the female, with darker bands and lines as in £. fuscula, the 
orbicular and reniform spots more or less strongly outlined in 
white ; costa white-spotted, most strongly beyond the middle, 
a more or less strongly defined squamose patch of yellowish 
scales just beyond the reniform spot; a transverse bracket- 
like white line followed by a yellowish streak near the exter- 
nal angle; a 3-shaped pale line, bordered outwardly with 
deep black, near the base; fringe of all the wings white- 
spotted and with basal and central pale lines: secondaries 
shining greyish brown. Wings below much as in LZ. fuscula, 
but darker. Hxpanse 1 inch 1 line. 
Yokohama (Jonas). 
Although allied to £. fuscula, this species has more nearly 
the aspect of E. africana of Felder: excepting in the form of 
the margin of the secondaries, it nearly approaches Eriopus 
Latreillit of Duponchel. 
Anthophilide. 
122. Anthophila paradisea, n. sp. 
Allied to A. purpurata: primaries with the basal half pale 
lemon-yellow, white at base of inner margin; disk bright 
rose-colour, whitish on the costa near apex, and indistinctly 
blotched with pale bronzy brown (barely visible without a 
